"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 04:57:50PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>
> > there are a lot commercial software "for redhat" not "for linux", i even
> > found device drivers supplied as .rpm with kernel modules - of course for
> > redhat.
>
> And there is stuff packaged as Debian packages instead. No big deal ---
> the whole advantage of open source is that you can take stuff built
> for one distribution and run it on another if you want.
> [...]
> --Stephen
Sadly, this is not always true. Take SuSE and RedHat together as an example: I
have a stock SuSE system, but sometimes need updates. At first, I'll search at
rpmfind.net and usually I can find a new version, but only for RedHat or
RawHide. Installing and upgrading is mostly fine for normal utils like grep,
patch, etc. But when I want to upgrade glibc, some things (like
/usr/share/i18n/charmaps/ISO-8859-1) are owned by glibc on red hat systems
while they are owned by localedb on my SuSE system. Therefore I get a warning
and need to use the --force option when using rpm.
For servers, it's even worse, a RedHat /etc/rc.d/squid has following lines:
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
Unfortunately, a SuSE system has not a file /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions.
Therefore the script fails or prints error messages. For every SuSE system, I
have to write special files to make it upgradeable with RedHat rpms...
Xuân.
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